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Indecision
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“... he dithered around like a fart in a trouser leg.”
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“I am always jumping into the sausage grinder and deciding, even before I'm half ground, that I don't want to be a sausage after all.”
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“Ah, snug lie those that slumber / Beneath Conviction's roof. / Their floors are sturdy lumber, / Their windows, weatherproof. / But I sleep cold forever / And cold sleep all my kind, / Born nakedly to shiver / In the draft from an open mind.”
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“... it is human nature to stand in the middle of a thing ...”
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“... there are no half measures. We either have dinner or telephone the police ...”
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“... it takes a while to walk on two feet / each one going the other way.”
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“[On being indecisive and changeable:] On my gravestone I want inscribed: 'On the other hand, maybe I should have lived.'”
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“So indecisive, her favorite color is plaid.”
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“Twilight was the worst hour, because it was the hour of indecision.”
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“Ambivalence is like carbon monoxide — undetectable yet deadly.”
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“Then Again, Maybe I Won't.”
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“Maybes never are.”
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“Indecision is the key to flexibility.”
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“Always remember, indecision is decision — usually against you.”
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“Indecisiveness wears a person out.”
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“I know not what to do; my mind is divided.”
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“Decision is a sharp knife that cuts clean and straight. Indecision is a dull one that hacks and tears and leaves ragged edges behind.”